Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Niagara Falls, New York
Object Number:
1962.14
Date:
1831
Medium:
Watercolor, brown ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. ( 13.7 x 20 cm )
mat: 11 1/8 x 12 7/8 in. ( 28.3 x 32.7 cm )
Marks:
inscription: verso: "[lengthly account of artist's visit to locality"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed along left border vertically in brown ink: "ladder foot to bridge look down. and [illegible] / going foright[?] table. Cafe[?]. -- walk up. musuem[?] / all views wrong. cristal,"; at lower right: "rail . Register / Canada"; verso: long inscription, partially cut, perhaps from a journal about travels, his sketches, and Niagara
Description:
Landscape
Credit Line:
Abbott-Lenox Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
